Fence



(No Model.)

B.P.PERRY.

FENCE.

Patented Oct. 16, 1883.

INVENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

"Users A res Fries.

PATENT FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 286,956, dated October 16, 1883.

Application filed March 19, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern):

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. PERRY, of WVest Andover, in the county of Ashtabula and State of Ohio, have invented new Improvements in Fences, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has more particularly for its object the making of a good strong fence mainly from rails of old or worn-out fences. The importance of this will readily be seen when the growing scarcity of timber for fence-rail purposes is considered, as also the objection which exists among many farmers and others to the use of exclusively barbed-wire fences, owing to the liability of cattle to injure themselves by such fences.

My invention consists in the construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying Figure 1 representsa side view of part of a fence embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section of the same on the line I w w in Fig. 1, the post being shownin full;

and Fig. 3, a plan of the portion of the fence shown in Fig. 1. 7

A A in the drawings indicate the rails, such as are used in the construction of ordinary worm rail-fences, and may be old rails, of which large numbers may be found on many or most farms, including rails of worn-out or worthless fences that it would be unprofitable or impossible to use over again in construct ing worm rail-fences of the ordinary kind and usual height. These rails A A are laid up in the usual way of constructing worm rail-fences; but with my invention it will only be necessary to build them four or five rails high, which would be about or but little more than one-half the height of an ordinary rail-fence.

B B are, posts, which may either be specially provided for the purpose or be made from broken rails, and which are arranged to sup port the rails in the angles they form with one anotherthat is, at the crossing end portions of the rails. The lower series of the rails A A rest on. fenceblocks G, to keep them raised from the ground and so restrain their rotting,

and the posts B B are clamped to the rails, and the whole held in place and anchored to the ground by means of a wire, D, looped around the posts, passing across the top rails down the opposite side of the rails'from the posts, and secured by stakes E, driven into the ground in a slanting direction under the fenceblocks, so that the vertical strain of the wire pulls the upper side of the stake against a lower corner of the block, thus resisting the tendency of the wire to pull the stake from the ground, pressing the fence firmly onto the block, and keeping the block in place. The posts and rails are further bound together by means of wires D, passing around the posts and around thewires D. ThepostsBB, which rest on the fence-blocks G, extend upward to a considerable height above the top rails, or in other words, to fully the necessary height of the fence, of which the rails only form onehalf, or thereabout. This upward projection of the posts 13 B provides for the arrangement of a barbed or other wire, G, from post to post, in the same or like worm arrangement as the rails, and at an elevation of the requisite height of the fence. Such wire G, by its ten sion, in conjunction with the stakes securing the wire locks D, assists materially to hold the posts and rails in position.

From the foregoing description it will be perceived that the stakes E not merely, as in the case of other stakes used for such purposes, hold the fence in place, but also hold the posts in position on the fence-blocks,whieh prevents them from rotting, said posts, too, forming a part of the lock to hold the fence at their crossing ends in place, as well as serving as a support for the wire G, which, unlike certain other fence-stretchers, adds to or determines the height of the fence, and is in the same or approximately like zigzag line as the rails.

A fence thus constructed uses but few rails and may be built at a very moderate cost; also is Very securely anchored, and, though the rails are low, stock is prevented from crowding through or over it.

I do not claim the mere use of posts at the crossing ends of the rails, nor themere use of wire locks at such parts, nor yet, broadly, the use of stakes for securing a fence in place, neither wire or otherlike stretchers, irrespective of their particular arrangement and combination; but,

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, with tiers of rails, the ends of the rails of one tier laid alternately upon the ends of the rails of another tier, forming a zigzag or worm fence, of a post standing in one of the obtuse angles of the fence, awire made fast around said post, passing over the rails down the obtuse angle of the fence 011 the opposite sides of the rails, and secured to a pin or small stake, a block on the ground to support the rails, and a wire bound around the Wire aforesaid and around the post, near its bottom, said stake or pin being driven slantingly beneath the edge of said block, substantially as shown and described, whereby the strain of the upright binding-wire will be sustained by the stake or pin, its side bearing against a lower corner of the block,-th11s tending to bind the fence upon the block, and to prevent pulling the stake out of the ground.

2. The combination, in a Worm-fence, of the rails A A, the posts B B at the crossing end portions of the rails and arranged to extend above the same, the Wire locks D, clamping the rails and posts together, the fence-blocks G, the stakes E, and the wire G, connecting the posts above the rails, and arranged in a like Worm line with the rails, substantially as shown and described.

BENJAMIN F. PERRY.

Vitnesses:

B. D. MORLEY, XV. E. KING. 

